Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria · via The Corporation Global Integrated Projects Limited · August 2023 – December 2025 · Website Content · Information Architecture · Digital Transformation
SEC Nigeria Built Homepage
The SEC Nigeria project officially began in August 2023. But the story behind it starts much earlier. Ideosphere had made a dry pitch to the Securities and Exchange Commission as far back as 2018 — years before I joined the organisation as a staff member. It had gone through stages of interest, postponement, revision, and renewed interest over several years. By the time the Terms of Reference were agreed upon and I was formally brought in to manage and execute, the project had been gestating for half a decade.
The scope, as of August 2023, was ambitious: a new website with cleaner navigation and professional consistency; a logo refresh; one or more operator portals to replace the existing system; an intranet and extranet for SEC's internal and external communications and file-sharing needs. It was a wide brief. Too wide, as it turned out, for the budget that had been allocated — something I would have flagged and pushed back on had I been in the room when the ToR was drafted. I was not. By the time I arrived, agreements had been signed.
Over 28 months, the project lived through three significant slowdowns. The first was caused by SEC's inability to provide dependencies we needed to begin the portal work — specifically, read-only access to the existing operator portal so we could understand its architecture before replacing it. Without this, our engineers could not move. The second slowdown followed a regime change within SEC itself, which brought new leadership, new priorities, and a period of institutional recalibration. The third was attrition — the second set of engineers we brought onto the project grew disheartened by the gap between the initial budget and the actual scope of work being asked of them.
Along the way, the scope expanded in ways that were exciting but ultimately undeliverable at the allocated budget: integrating the operator portal to auto-update a public-facing database; building a Power BI-style back-end to convert uploaded PDF capital market reports into interactive data visualisations. These were compelling ideas. They were also ideas that needed significantly more resources than were available.
What launched in December 2025 was the new public website — fully content-complete, with all data migrated and most content improved and formatted from the old site — and the FinTech portal, which served as an informational hub for Nigeria's growing fintech sector. The operator portal, the intranet-extranet workspace, and the investors' community platform we had provisioned on our own initiative did not make it to launch. The website itself was not perfect at launch — two developer changes over the life of the project created acclimatisation gaps and a build-push-fix cycle that we eventually worked through, but not without seams showing at the finish line.
"Everything that was a law, rule, guideline, or code of conduct was sent to SEC’s Corporate Services Directorate after writing, for them to review, return notes, and for me to integrate. I handled all content alone — intentionally, to ensure information governance."
Organogram for SEC Nigeria I Designed
I signed an NDA before I wrote a single word of content for this project. That was the starting condition, and the right one. Writing content for a regulatory body is a fundamentally different exercise from writing for a startup or a brand. Every sentence about what the SEC can or cannot do, what an operator is required to disclose, what an investor is entitled to know — all of it had legal and regulatory weight. There was no room for creative license in the places where precision was required.
My process was consistent throughout: write the content, submit it to SEC's Corporate Services Directorate, receive their annotations and corrections, integrate, and resubmit where necessary. This happened across every regulatory section of the site. What I brought was not legal expertise — I do not have that — but the ability to take dense regulatory language and restructure it into something a member of the public could actually navigate and understand, without losing the accuracy that made it legally valid.